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Archive for 2008/09

Uri joking?

Uri Geller once claimed “to be able to bend spoons with the power of his mind” and to have psychic powers, although apparently he currently prefers to be called a “mystifier” rather than “psychic.“ (Well, he mystifies me. Ed.)
He was the inspiration for the work that we’ve created for Ambergreen Internet Marketing, an international leader [...]

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The Walk

Helene’s just created a new identity for the Leith Walk Traders Association that is, like The West End Traders Association, a group that has received funding from Open For Business through TIE (Transport Initiative Edinburgh) to help them through the difficult trading conditions created as a result of the tram-works that are disrupting traffic flow [...]

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More gongs?

Just like buses innit?
We wrote only a week or so ago about our three nominations at The Scottish Advertising Awards for The Scotsman, The Edinburgh International Climbing Arena at Ratho and our own house ads.  And now, stone me if we ain’t gone and done it again.
This time it’s The Herald Scottish Recruitment Communications Awards [...]

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A bygone view of Edinburgh

We like this photograph.

Taken in the 1920’s by a mad photographer called Alfred G Buckham.  It is owned by The National Galleries of Scotland.
Buckham had crashed nine times before he was discharged from the Royal Air Force as a hundred per cent disabled. Continuing to indulge his passion for aerial photography, he wrote that ‘If [...]

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The Spanish archer triumph at The Mercury Awards

Us middle-aged men love Elbow (the Spanish Archer…El Bow?  Gettit?).
Probably because they sing about middle-aged man things.
At one point on The Seldom Seen Kid Guy Grieve, in declaring his perhaps unrequited love, in Starlings sings
“You are the only thing in any room you’re ever in
I’m stubborn, selfish and too old.”
and …
“So yes I guess I’m [...]

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WHA’S LIKE US?

Ever been headhunted by a knucklehead with a cockney twang and – heaven forfend – not the faintest idea  of who you are and, even worse, what it is you’ve been doing all these years? Our new client, well kent recruitment agency Denholm Associates, does nothing of the sort, especially when plying their trade in the [...]

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SCOTTISH ADVERTISING AWARDS NOMINATIONS

 
A bunch of us showed up at Elmwood’s offices last Thursday night to partake of the free wine handed out by the lovely Diane Young and her team from the Drum – sorry, to have a peep at the nominations for this year’s awards. 
Verdict: not a vintage year, although not bad for wine box plonk.
The standard [...]

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